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Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln, Samuel, 1619?-1690
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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n the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, and in the suspected connection with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Herring (1693—1757), we realise what important results probably await an exhaustive examination of the English pedigree of this family. The poverty of the Pennsylvania and, still more, of the Virginia records has deprived us of knowledge of even the name of the ancestress in the next generation, but when we reach the Salters we find ourselves again upon sure ground. Richard Salter, the grandfather of Virginia John Lincoln, was a man who would have been notable in any community, member of the House of Deputies of New Jersey (1695), of the Assembly (1704), Justice, Judge, and Captain, while Richard, his son, was a member of the Council and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Nancy Hanks, the Story of Abraham Lincolns Mother, by C. H. Hitchcock, New York, 1900. A Complete Genealogy of the Hanks Family, by the same hand, is also in preparation. = Ibid., p. 86.
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INHERITED TRAITS 139 Through Richard Salters wife, Sarah Bowne, we draw upon another distinguished namne, her father, John Bowne, having been Representative in Hampstead (New York) Convention (1665), member of the Provincial Assembly of New Jersey (1680), Speaker of the same (1682), and Justice of Monmouth County (1683). His son, John Bowne, Jr., was also a member of the Provincial Assembly and was, with Richard Salter, Jr., among the most strenuous opponents of the Cornbury faction. Obadiah Bowne, another son, was likewise of the Provincial Assembly and his son-in-law, Gershom Mott, was Sheriff (1697-98), member Provincial Assembly (1707—13), and expelled, as well as his brother-in-law, for opposition to the corrupt Cornbury. Through John Bownes wife, Lydia Holmes, we tap another strong stream of sturdy ancestry. Her father. Rev .Obadiah Holmes, had led one of the revolts against the bigotry of his surroundings and had conducted a little band of advanced thinkers from Massachusetts to Rhode

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